Garment-supporting clamp or clasp



May 4 1926.

M. BLACK ET AL GARMENT SUPPORTING CLAMP 0R CLASP Filed March 14 1925 mvmrona 19mm v 54/71/11 OL/fl/Y m W M Patented May 4:, 1926.

UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

MATHEW BLACK AND SAMUEL OLKIN, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

GARMENT-SUPPORTING CLAMP 0R CLASP.

Application filed March 14, 1925. Serial No. 15,461.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, MATHEW BLACK and SAMUEL OLKIN, both citizens of the United States of America, residing both at Brooklyn, Kings County, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Supporting Clamps or Clasps, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to garment sup porting clamps or clasps and in particular to one-adapted for attaching to ether a of the invention is'to provide a clasp which will not tear the clothing and which will hold the same together securely.

A further object is to provide a clamp or clasp which will hold a shirt and trouser together, the shirt being held frictionally so that it will not tear orrip.

A further object of the invention is to provide a neat compact clasp having few parts, which will not, while in use be felt by the wearer and one which may be quickly adjusted to fasten or release the clothing i if desired. It gives the rollers a better grip parts or material held together.

Iteferrmg to the drawing wherein we have shown a preferred embodiment of our inrollers is locked in the grooves or flutes.

vention:

Figure 1 is an enlarged view in elevation of my clasp the same being shown at tached to a trousers and holding a portion of a shirt therein.

Figure 2 is an enlarged side view of the clasp as seen in Figure 1,

Figure 3 is an enlarged section taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 1 showing the arrangement of the gripping rollers and the releasing bar,

Figure 4; is an enlarged section taken on the line 4-4 of Figure 1 showing the arrangement of the slots in' each piece of the clasp member, and V Figure 5 is an enlarged side view of the clasp, the parts thereof being shown in open or releasing posit-ion.

Referring to the drawing in detail 5'indicates the top edge of a pair of trousers or other garment and 6 a portion of a'shirt or other garment both of which are adapted to be held together by the clasp which consists of two base members 7 and 8 the member 7 having the side wings or flanges 9 shaped to provide in their upper portions bracket likeprojections 10 between which are carried a stationary roller 11, the lower portions of the flanges 9 beingformed to.

provide extensions 12 in which are cut the slots 13, there being disposedin said slots the ends of a lock bar 14: which has sliding movement in said slots. The lock bar carries at its center portion and fixed thereto, a latch member 15 the head of which is rounded and flattened as at 16 the purpose of which will be hereinafter brought out.

The latch 15 is providedwitha depending portion 17 which is curved slightly and extends below the edge of the base member 17 to form a finger piece 18.

The base member 8 is provided at its side edges with flangeslt) the upper portions of which are extended as at 20 to provide journals for the ends of a'roller carrying. shaft 21, the roller 22 carried thereby being res volvably mounted. This roller 22 and the roller 11 may be made of hard rubber or other. suitable material which will not rust or mark the material held therebetween.

The peripheries of the rollers as shown may be fluted longitudinally of their length as,

at 23, but this fluting may be dispensed with on the lmaterial and as roller 22 is revolvably mounted, the goods held between the hooks 24:, theouter edges of which are curved as at 25 to provide a cam surface, and the inner sides of which provide receptacles which match the slots 13 cut in the extensions 12 before referred to, and in which the lock bar 14 is adapted to seat. The lower edges of the flanges 19 and 9 on the base members 8 and 7 respectively are pivotally held together by the pins or rivets 25 and the flanges 19 on base 8 fit snugly within the flanges 9 of base member 7.

As shown in Figure 5 the parts 7 and 8 are swung open or in position to release the goods. In Figure 2 they are: shown in locking position. The base member 8 is provided with ears 26 at each corner thereof, which are provided with openings to allow the clasp to be sewn to the trousers or other garment.

In the operation of the clasp in use for holding a trousersand shirt together, we

gripped securely 'bet reen the rollers. \Vhen the 'clasp is open the lock bar 1d normally rests in the bottom 'of'the slots 13, but when the member 7 is moved towards member 8 to-close the clasp, the cam like edges 25 of the books 2% on member 8 raise the lock bar '14: and it ridesorer the top edge of the hook and drops into the inside of the hooks, as the clasp is vertically disposed and the weightof thelock bar, will cause it to fall by gravity "-into position within .the hook to lock the two parts '7 and '8 together. Si1nultaneously with the raising of the lock bar, the rollers come into contact to engage the goods to be held and the flutes oii'therollers cause the same to snap into loccking position,

theac'tual locking being carried out by the lock 'bar 14, asdescribed. In this position, the shirt and trousers will be firmly secured together and without danger of damage to the relatively thinner -1naterial of the shirt. The rollers being "made of rubber or other suitable material will compensate for various thicknesses of material held therebetween.

vt-hen it is desired to release the material "held in the clasp, "the finger piece 18 of the latch '15 which issecured to thelocking bar 14 .is-pushed upwardly tomove'the lock'bar out of engagement with the hooks 24 at which tim the clasp parts can be swung open on their pivots 25" to separate the rollers and release the 'inaterial held .therein. The enlarged head 16 of the latch 15 is provided for-the purpose ofpreventin the same from getting *into the flutes of the lower roller and thus prevent its rotation to release the material when members ,7 andS are opened. A lip28 is provided in member 8 through an o 'ieninp; in which the depending portion masses of latch 15 passes. This flip retains the locking bar in position.

It is evident that we have provided a clasp having few parts and one which may be disposed at spaced points around the interior edge of a pair of trousers or a skirt which will not only be concealed but will securely hold a shirt or waist so that the use of a belt, suspenders, buttons or other sustaining medium are dispensed with. Also we "have provided a clasp which will not be felt by the wearer and one which can be adjusted with a minimum of time and 'e tl'ort and which will not mar or tear thedisengaging the locking bar from'said hook portions.

Q. A garment clasp vcomprising a member adapted'to be sewn to a garment, a roller revolvablycarried in said member, another member pivoted to said rfirst member,.a'staltio'nary "roller therein adapted to contact withsaid revolvable roller to hold the material of an adjacent garment 'therebetween when the members are closed, slots in said second member, :a locking bar in said slots, hook members, theedges .oif which constitute cams whereby when the members are closed,

the edges of said hook ,members raise the locking bar automatically to allow it to sub-- sequen'tly fall within the hook members to lock the c'lasp members together, and a finger operated latch associated with the MATHEW V BLACK. SAMUEL OLKI'N,

lock bar to release said clasp members so that the same imay be opened and the material between the rollers released. 

